Hi Parameshwara Bhat To copy the content of a subdirectory to a new partition, and specially if you have long filenames and would like to keep the "disk organisation", I advice you to use backup and restore rather tar and cpio. For example: to copy /usr to your new partition as /dev/sdb1 $ mkdir /a $ mount /dev/sdb1 /a $ cd /usr $ /sbin/dump -0f - . | ( cd /a ; /sbin/restore -rf - ) Hope that helps Cheers Jean-Philippe BATTU Grenoble FRANCE Site Web: http://www.geocities.com/jeanpba http://jeanpba.homeip.net
